New Products

The Samba Team has announced version 1.9.17 of Samba, a suite
of corporate network integration tools. Samba is designed to
service any Server Message Block (SMB) client. The new release
features CIFS support, increased speed, a larger variety of
servers, larger networks and improved browsing. For more
information and downloading, go to or
ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/MIRRORS.txt. Samba is freely
available under the GNU public license.

Contact: URL:
http://samba.canberra.edu.au/samba/samba.html.

Laptop Accelerated-X Display Server

Xi Graphics has released its X server for laptops. The Laptop
Accelerated-X Display Server enables laptop users to utilize
workstation-like features such as multiple visuals and gamma
correction. Like the desktop version, this product supports
PseudoColor, High Color and True Color modes and handles large
displays. For more information see Xi Graphics' web site.

MetaCard 2.1.1 and the MetaCard Starter Kit, a GUI
development and multimedia authoring tool, are now available from
the MetaCard WWW and FTP sites: http://www.metacard.com/ and
ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/. New features include support for
HTTP, POST, GET and proxies, encoding functions and new scripting
language features. A full list of features is available in the
README.2.1.1 file.

Rondeau Software announced the release of pryzm, a
Motif-based text editor for Linux with CDE. pryzm includes file
opening via “drag and drop” from the CDE File Manager, session
manager compliance, navigation to any open file in any CDE
workspace and more. The price for a single-user license wh binaries
is $50US.

Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc. (EST) has announced the
availability of QuickStart, a new family of multi-platform software
solutions for system replication and disaster recovery. The family
consists of QuickStart System Replicator, QuickStart System Rescue
and QuickStart Data Rescue. QuickStart's system replication and
disaster recovery capabilities are ideal for open systems VARs and
Integrators. QuickStart System Replicator licenses are available
for 10 to 10,000 users, starting at $25US per user. QuickStart Data
Rescue is priced at $25US per user. The QuickStart WARStart Package
is $499US.

The Empress RDBMS has added an option for selecting the best
indexing method for a specific application. In addition to the
B-tree indexing method, users of the Empress RDBMS can now take
advantage of a new index method called TIMESERIES. Visit their web
site or send e-mail to sales@empress.com.

TalentSoft announced TalentSoft Web+ 3.0, a web-based
application development tool for Unix (including Linux) and
Windows. The key features of Web+ are support for mixed platforms
and a multi-tiered client/server architecture. New features include
more speed, improved handling of variables and the ability to call
functions from DLL files. Evaluation copies are available at the
TalentSoft web site.

4Front Technologies announced the availability of the Open
Sound System sound drivers for Linux (OSS/LinuxPPC) running on
CHRP-based PowerPC workstations. OSS/LinuxPPC is a commercial
implementation of the OSS/Free drivers, the soundcard drivers
provided with the Linux kernel distribution. It supports built-in
audio devices found in PowerPCs as well as Plug-n-Play (PnP)
soundcards. A 7-day trial version of OSS/LinuxPPC is available at
4Front Technologies' web site.

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